As the compiler of this website, speaking frankly, understand that I am not a scholar, only a regular person, who Ioves searching for God’s truth as you do. For many years I have tried to find the same answers others are looking for, such as: ‘How can Jesus and God be one, yet distinct from each other?’ or, ‘How can the Word in (John 1:1) be with God, and be God at the same time when there is only one God?’ Who is the angel of the Lord? Just when I thought I had the answer, I would see a scripture that didn’t make sense with my findings. Does God want to remain mysterious? Yes. However, through persistence and prayer, it’s true that if you seek Him, you will find Him, when you search for Him with all your heart (Jer. 29:13-14). If you draw near to God, He will draw near to you (James 4:8). Since God knows how diligently I have been seeking answers to the harder questions, it is entirely possible that He has given me some of the answers I’ve been seeking and I would like to share with you what has been revealed to me.
God tells us who, what, where, when, and why, but does not tell us how He does His miracles, signs, and great wonders. Jesus of Nazareth was a man certified by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs, which God did among you through Him, as you yourselves know (Acts 2:22).
There are not three separate Gods because God makes it very clear there is no other God but one.
(1 Cor. 8:4-6; Deut. 6:4; Isa. 43:10, and 45:5).
In (John 14:8-11) Phillip said to Jesus, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.” Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father?’ Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on My own. Instead, it is the Father dwelling in Me, performing His works. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me—or at least believe on account of the works themselves.
Jesus explains the meaning of oneness: He said, “Holy Father, protect them by Your name, the name You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one. While I was with them, I protected and preserved them by Your name, the name You gave Me, (John 17:11-12) “that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me. I have given them the glory You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one—I in them and You in Me—that they may be perfectly united, so that the world may know that You sent Me and have loved them just as You have loved Me. (John 17:21-23). "I and the Father are one." For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form. (Col. 2:9) This is how He can be with God and be God at the same time.
Male and female He created them (Gen. 1:27). Therefore, a man shall leave his father and mother and become one flesh (Gen. 2:24). This does not mean that a man and wife will merge into one person. It simply means they are joined together for life and are considered one. This is what God intended. They have a bond—one flesh, two persons with separate roles, distinct from each other. The marriage analogy is the comparison of a shared relationship.
Oneness of the church is a single entity with many members having different roles, called ‘the body of Christ.’(1 Cor. 12:12-26); (Gal. 3:28-29); (Rom. 12:4-6).
Jesus will come again someday for His bride. Collectively, all believers are Christ’s bride. For the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body (1 Cor. 12:12). Similarly, we can make a comparison with that same scripture and say: For God is one and has three members, but all members of that one God, being three, are one God. The name God gives to describe the plurality of humans is Man, or Mankind (Gen. 5:1-2; John 1:13). We are man, they are God.
angel of the LORD: If the word angel means messenger, then the angel of the LORD is, by definition, a messenger sent by another. This angel therefore cannot be identified as the Father, who is the One who sends. The angel of the LORD is sent, by the Father, and in many cases is spoken of as God. The Father is invisible (1 Tim. 1:17; John 1:18, John 5:37 and John 6:46). The Holy Spirit is also not visible as a human anywhere in the Scriptures. There is only One other who qualifies for this position, and only One other who the angel of the LORD could possibly be, the pre incarnate Christ, the Word, the Son, the visible divine being in the Old Testament. The angel of the LORD speaks and performs as God, with divine authority, yet is a messenger. When the angel of the LORD comes into the presence of someone in the Old Testament, the some fall down on their faces in worship. The angel of the LORD accepts worship, yet a regular angel does not.
(Rev. 19:9-10, and Rev. 22:8-9).
There is an angel of the Lord who speaks to Joseph in a dream. “An angel of the Lord,” is different from ‘the angel of the LORD’ because there are regular angels in heaven who are subordinate. There is no evidence that the angel in Joseph’s dream is the angel of the LORD seen in the Old Testament. If I am looking for what makes sense, it makes sense that since the angel of the LORD does not appear in Scripture anymore after the New Testament, that Jesus is therefore now the messenger of the LORD in the New Testament, this time as a human.
This commentary is one determination; others may have their own interpretation. The bible, as God’s word is sometimes difficult to figure out, though through prayer and much study, one can be led to God’s truth.